Description
Clubhouse, sub-titled A Continuous Beatmix by DJ Scott Blackwell, is an album by the American DJ, audio engineer, and Electronic Dance Music producer Scott Blackwell, released on N*Soul Records in 1994, distributed in the US by Diamante Distribution. The Clubhouse features “more than 20 non-stop, essential tunes, mixed exclusively by DJ Scott Blackwell.”
“Mixed live by DJ Scott Blackwell – July 1995, N•Soul studios, Los Angeles, CA. Recorded digitally to enhance listener euphoria.” [Note printed on the sleeve]
Long live the digital DJ! This was something N-soul’s frontman and DJ Scott Blackwell must have been thinking whilst spinning various records live, using the new tools of the centre stage DJ – the Denon 2700 DJ CD player unit and Pioneer DJM 500 Table De Mixage! Oh well, these are not even my creative words. See the description in the CD inlay. Anyway, digital or not, this ‘Clubhouse’ CD features 20 non-stop tunes, mixed by dance-pioneer Blackwell. The album kicks off with a trying-to-convince speech by Scott, in which he pleads for the new rhythms of today. It continues with a tune by America’s Paradigm Shift and from that point your feet will probably keep dancing ’till the very end of the CD. It’s better than anything I’ve ever heard from N-Soul. If you don’t know any of the N-Soul artists or you just want to get familiar with some sanctified dance, then but this CD. Of course ‘Clubhouse’ is a good promotion for the N-Soul label for it features mostly N-Soul artists. In fact, if Scott Blackwell didn’t put Hydro‘s «Rainmaker» and «Touch The Spirit» in, this CD would only have featured American sanctified dance! I’m glad Scott decided to spin in some records of the UK’s most experimental dance collaborations. Also, Scott went for a harder-hitting way than what we usually get from N-Soul: AJ Mora is featured frequently with some banging techno tunes. [Manja Visser, Cross Rhythms, December 1997]
CD tracklist:
01. Scott Blackwell – Scott’s Intro
02.a Paradigm Shift – Grip
02.b Rhythmsaints – Love Will See Us Through
02.c AJ Mora – Something Dubby
02.d Crystal Lewis – I Now Live (Essential Collection Remix)
02.e AJ Mora – I Found Something Real (Mijangos Harmony Mix)
02.f Hydro – Rain Maker (The Nutter Stomp Mix)
02.g Hydro – Touch The Spirit (The 303 Dream Topping Mix)
03.a Rhythmsaints – (I Need To Feel) Your Love
03.b Scott Blackwell (Myx Trip 2) – Get On Up
03.c AJ Mora – I Lift My Hands
03.d Scott Blackwell (Myx Trip 2) – Oh Happy Day
03.e Rhythmsaints – Living Joy (Calvin Chambers Remix)
03.f AJ Mora – Rapture (C-mon Lift Me Up) (The Dub)
03.g Scott Blackwell (Myx Trip 2) – Amen
03.h Scott Blackwell feat. Limit X – X Factor
A full-page advertisement for various new releases on the N*Soul label, including Scott Blackwell’s remix project Clubhouse, was featured in the November 1996 issue of CCM Magazine.
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